Working with people for the past 22 years, I have heard many say, “I have been so hurt, abused, neglected and abandoned and sometimes these memories arise and I am just as angry as I was or couldn’t be then.” It is with the deepest empathy that I hear the pain,...

When I think of meeting new people for the first time, whether they are clients, colleagues or at a party there are basic questions that help us break the ice and get to know one another. For example, what do you do for living; are you married; do you have children,...

The first thing I can say about trauma is that our sense of what it is as a category of human experiencing is evolving. Early beliefs of trauma were, for the most part, related to war and combat. There is so much information about trauma and Post Traumatic Stress...

When a child is born, and parents first look at this precious gift; their hopes and dreams for their child begin to take physical form and become reality. Some may find out ahead of time which they are having, and begin to prepare the nursery for the gender they are...